Gov't mulls Microsoft, others for ID system
C|Net | at | by Mike
The U.S government is considering using online ID systems from Microsoft, Entrust, RSA, and VeriSign among others to track the identity of visitors to a dozen new federal Web sites launching later this year, a federal official said Friday. Mark Forman, who oversees the federal government's $45 billion IT budget, said he is talking to the companies about how their online identification technologies might give agencies a standard way to let the general public access private information on the Web. One of the sites, for example, will allow citizens to check social security benefits online. Forman is associate director of information technology at the Office of Management and Budget.